A Possession Forever
About This Book
1 In 1841, the British historian Thomas Carlyle posited that the history of the world was really the biography of great men. Ten years later he argued that when an individual seeks to commemorate one of these great men, it reveals as much about them as it does about the object of their veneration: ‘Show me the man you honour, I know by that symptom, better than any other, what kind of man you yourself are’ (Savage, 2009, pp. 8-10). As it is with individuals, so it is with nations. Memorial or mo
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | History of architecture, The Arts, Education, Colonialism and imperialism, First World War, Second World War |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 8 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |